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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC BEHAVIOR & ORGANIZATION
卷 217, 期 -, 页码 11-31出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2023.10.034
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Land titling; Human capital investment
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This study finds that land titling has a positive effect on investment in human capital, particularly in terms of schooling. Land titling reduced the hazard rate of dropping out of school by 14% for children between the ages of 6 and 18. Additionally, including the effects of the contemporaneous conditional cash transfer program further reduced the hazard rate of dropping out by 34%. These results hold even when the head of the household changes or migrates, and have a significant effect on female children but not on extremely poor families.
In this paper, we study the effect of land titling on investment in human capital. We first develop a theoretical model of the investment in the presence of property rights to agricultural land and then test the predictions of the model regarding the schooling decisions of households using data from Mexico's PROCEDE land titling program. Using the staggered introduction of land titling, we find that ownership tilted the balance in favor of investment in human capital in the form of schooling. Titling decreased the hazard rate of dropping out of school by 14% for children between the ages of 6 and 18. Additionally, including the effects of the contemporaneous conditional cash transfer program further reduced the hazard rate of dropping out by 34%. We find that these results hold even when the head of the household changes or migrates. Titling has a significant effect on female children but not on extremely poor families.
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